[olug] SuSE or RHEL or Centos or Fedora or Xandros

Thu Sep 9 14:55:26 UTC 2004

Come on, you don't know troll bait whan you see it?  Lighten up.  Terry 
started it anyway.  :)

BTW, I have a ton of hard working systems here.  Their only reboot was 
upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4 kernels.
They're all Redhat, but it's still a Linux kernel that's keeping them 
up...

$ uptime; cat /proc/uptime; uname -rv
 10:37am  up 592 days, 17:20,  1 user,  load average: 1.82, 2.19, 2.06
51211208.08 788273.75
2.4.18-19.8.0smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 12 04:36:25 EST 2002

Christopher Cashell <topher at zyp.org> 
Sent by: olug-bounces at olug.org
09/09/2004 09:15 AM
Please respond to
Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>

To
olug at olug.org
cc

Subject
Re: [olug] SuSE or RHEL or Centos or Fedora or Xandros

At Thu, 09 Sep 04, Unidentified Flying Banana 
Vincent.Raffensberger at dtn.com, said:
> Other than Xandros, it was a list of secure, production level systems.

I challenge anyone who's actually had real experience with Debian to try
to tell me it isn't a "secure, production level system".  And installing
it for a few hours doesn't count as real experience.

Personally, I can't think of any other distribution that even comes
close for server use.  And please, don't anyone tell me that Debian
isn't supported[1], or that it isn't used[2] much.

Production Debian server:

nexus:~$ uptime
 08:59:55 up 423 days,  6:45,  16 users,  load average: 0.70, 0.59, 0.58

This machine was initially installed in 1998.  It has been upgraded in
place multiple times since then (Debian upgrades don't require reboots).
The only time it ever gets rebooted is for kernel upgrades.

I'd love to see you try that with most other distributions. ;-)

And when you consider the new installer program that is currently being
tested for the next Debian release (expected within the next month or
so), I expect Debian use to grow even faster.

 [1] http://www.hp.com/hps/linux/lx_debian.html
 [2] 
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/28/debian_fastest_growing_linux_distribution.html

-- 
| Christopher
+------------------------------------------------+
| Here I stand.  I can do no other.              |
+------------------------------------------------+

_______________________________________________
OLUG mailing list
OLUG at olug.org
http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug